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NAFEMS is the International Association for the Engineering Modelling, Analysis and Simulation Community. We focus on the practical application of numerical engineering simulation techniques such as the Finite Element Method for Structural Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Multibody Simulation. ...more

Volume Graphics, a provider of leading analysis and visualization software for industrial computed tomography (CT) data, introduces the long-anticipated possibility to manually re-evaluate results in VGinLINE in the latest update. The update to version 3.1.1 of Volume Graphics software brings valuable improvements that make daily work even easier for all users. Users of VGinLINE benefit from the new VGinLINE APPROVER, which makes it more

In a collaboration almost as old as technology transfer itself, Sandia National Laboratories and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company have worked together for 25 years to create better vehicle tires and more advanced computational mechanics. “You might wonder how national defense systems relate to tire engineering,” said Susan Seestrom, Sandia’s chief research officer. “But a tire is a complex system more

DATADVANCE is pleased to announce pSeven 6.12, the latest version of our Design Space Exploration platform for every expertise. This release is a great leap forward in the 6.x series with its powerful new features, a number of significant enhancements and capabilities catering for the diverse needs of engineers and analytical experts.
Major updates include new blocks: Design of Experiments - provides a new Adaptive Design technique with more

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15, 2017 - ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS), the global leader and innovator of engineering simulation software, announced today that it has acquired 3DSIM, the developer of premier additive manufacturing simulation technology. The acquisition of 3DSIM gives ANSYS the industry's only complete additive manufacturing simulation workflow. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Additive manufacturing is the fastest-growing engineering more

MINNEAPOLIS-Stratasys Ltd. (Nasdaq: SSYS), a global leader in applied additive technology solutions, today announced at formnext 2017, that it is collaborating with e-Xstream engineering, a world leader in multi-scale modeling of composite materials and structures, to deliver high-performance process modeling and structural analysis numerical tools for Stratasys additive manufacturing solutions. The combination of Stratasys additive more

Two weeks ago, over 120 ESTECO technology enthusiasts gathered at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, MI, for the 5th edition of the ESTECO North America Users' Meeting. The birthplace of the Ford Model T proved the perfect venue for a record-breaking edition that counted over 150 registrations, 12 high-profile speakers, 2 sold-out training courses and 5 exhibitors.
The Past and future of engineering were at the core of the more

The exascale architectures on the horizon for supercomputing pose intricate challenges to the developers of large-scale scientific applications. Running efficiently at exascale will not only require porting and optimizing code but also rethinking the design of core algorithms to take advantage of the greater parallelism and more efficient calculation capabilities that exascale systems will offer.
With the aim of efficiently exploiting more

Untangling quadrilateral meshes using locally injective mappings. Credit: Krishnan Suresh The computer simulations used to design, optimize, test or control a vast range of objects and products in our daily lives are underpinned by finite element methods. Finite element simulations use a mesh of geometric shapes—triangles, tetrahedra, quadrilaterals or hexahedra, for instance. These shapes can be combined to form a mesh that more

Contributed by: National Renewable Energy Centre of Spain (CENER) Mesoscale-to-microscale coupling of meteorological and wind engineering models allows wind energy researchers to improve their simulation-based design capabilities with more realistic models about the interplay between weather processes and site wind conditions. The MesoWake Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship has introduced a relatively simple interfacing more

ESTECO is proud to announce that Zunum Aero has selected modeFRONTIER as its preferred Multi-Disciplinary Optimization platform. The Washington-based startup, which is developing a family of hybrid-electric passenger aircrafts, came to this decision after a thorough competitive analysis that pinpointed the software developed by ESTECO as the most suitable to help them push the limits of battery technology and electric propulsion.
Planning more